A note on brane tension and M-theory

被引:50
作者
deAlwis, SP
机构
[1] Department of Physics, Box 390, University of Colorado, Boulder
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10.1016/S0370-2693(96)01172-0
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P1 [天文学];
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0704 ;
摘要
We point out that some M-theory results for brane tension can be derived from Polchinski's formula for D-brane tension. We also argue that this formula determines gravitational and gauge couplings in the low energy but quantum exact effective action.
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页码:291 / 295
页数:5
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